the trident

literary magazine

The Trident - SUNY Fredonia’s annual literary magazine, edited by students within the Literary Publishing class and published with support from the English Department. We’re a dedicated team of student editors who strive to showcase the best poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art from undergraduate students. 

We encourage you to submit your creative work! Please check out our Submission Guidelines to know what we’re looking for and how to properly format your submission(s).
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In addition to the publication of The Trident magazine, our goal is to give all kinds of writers and artists a chance to present before an audience of their peers. Many talented, creative individuals are afraid to show their work, but we here at The Trident believe that hard work deserves to be recognized and celebrated. We want to showcase pieces from all sorts of students, so please don’t be afraid to submit! ​

FAQ

  • I’m so glad you asked.

    Someone’s passion project. Glossy paper with poems from everyone within twenty miles of the editors. Text on screen, in Comic Sans and neon yellow coloring, text in sand written with a broom handle.

    A literary magazine is some sort, any sort, of a collection of written or visual works. It can include video essays, painting, erasure poetry, inkblots, dreams. It can be themed, it can be not themed, it can be a little bit of everything and a little bit of nothing.

    It can be published online, such as with the Vermont College of Fine Art’s Hunger Mountain Review. It can be published in print, as Cornell University’s Epoch or even our own Trident. It is anything you want it to be.

  • In short: the literary magazine of the State University of New York at Fredonia.

    In long: the project of the Literary Publishing class offered every spring. It publishes work from various Fredonia students, regardless of their major or class standing - poetry, prose, art, HTML, anything the year’s class envisions and enjoys. The vision for the year’s issue is purely that of the students in the class, whoever that may be; occasionally, students who have taken the class in previous years return as managing editors in vastly different roles in comparison to the students taking the class for the first time.

  • Good question. Who am I?